Sylvia Convey, artist
exhibitions, collections, selected bibliography
exhibitions, collections, selected bibliography
Sylvia Convey with her prize-winning painting at the Albury Regional Art Centre, 1980
It flowed through us by Sylvia Convey, monoprint (1997)
Sylvia Convey at Tallandoon
Washed up by Sylvia Convey, three-colour etching (1990)
Tony Convey, Professor Colin Rhodes & Sylvia Convey, Callan Park Gallery, SCA, opening night, Hypergraphica, 2014
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Born: 1948 Itzehoe, Germany of Latvian parents
Sylvia’s career spans more than 40 years and includes painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, assemblage, art quilts, art dolls, wearable art, contemporary jewellery, sound recording, documentary film, and teaching. Solo exhibitions Sylvia has had 25 solo exhibitions, including: 1986 Coloured Life, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra 1988 Hair of the Dog, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 1989 Secret Joys, Disposals Gallery, Wagga Wagga 1989 Secret Realm, Young Artists Gallery, MOCA, Brisbane 1996 Spirit Hand, Fibre Design Gallery, Goulburn 2000 Doll Dream, Threads Gallery, Canberra 2011 Cattywampus, Gallery Stimuleye, Melbourne 2012 Rummaged, Gallery Stimuleye, Melbourne 2013 Crossing the line, Gallery Stimuleye, Melbourne 2014 Embellish, Gallery Stimuleye, Melbourne Group Exhibitions Group exhibitions Sylvia has participated in numerous group shows between 1979 and 2014, including: 1974 Canberra Theatre Centre Gallery 1976 Arts Council Gallery, Sydney 1983-84 Wonderland toured NSW Regional Galleries 1984 Australian Naives, Rainsford Gallery, Sydney 1984 Post Atomic Card Show, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra 1984 This Year’s Model, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra 1984 The Sexuality Show, Canberra Institute of the Arts Gallery, Canberra 1985 Off the Beach, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra 1985 Psychotik, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra 1986 Staff Show, Canberra Institute of the Arts Gallery, Canberra 1986 Scanned Image, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra 1986 Drawings, Praxis, Fremantle 1986 Printed Image, Bitumen River Gallery, Canberra 1987 True Signs, Art Zone, Adelaide 1987 The Word, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra 1988 Australian Art Now, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra 1988 Staff Show, Canberra Institute of the Arts Gallery, Canberra 1988-89 Print Project, toured ACT, NSW, Victoria 1989 Ephemeral Art, Iwalewa Haus Bayreuth, West Germany 1989 Australian Art Brut, Gallerie Cannibal Pierce, Paris, France 1989 Spitten Chips, Gorman House Community Arts Centre, Canberra 1989 Outsider Art from Europe, Aust & US, Bockley Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota USA 1990 Fifteen Australian Outsider Artists, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange 1990 Pacific Rim Bookworks Exhibition, toured USA, Australia and Japan 1990 Sun, Smoke and Steel, toured galleries throughout Australia 1991 Seven Australian Outsider Artists, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW 1991 Raw Vision, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore 1991 The Convey Family, Gallery Art Naïve, Melbourne 1992 A Cerebral Odyssey, James Harvey Gallery, Balmain, NSW 1993 Three Australian Outsider Artists, Imago Site de la Creation, Begles, France 1993 Wild, Tin Shed Gallery, Sydney University, NSW 1993 Refusing Any Annexation, Wollongong Regional Gallery, NSW 1994 Australian Naïve Art, Barry Stern GaIIery, Sydney 1994 The Naives, Libby Edwards Gallery, Melbourne 1994 Relatively Speaking, James Harvey Gallery, Sydney 1995 Les Jardiniers de la memoiré, Site de la Création Franche, Bègles, France 1995 Ding, Dang & Don't, Leichhardt Street Gallery, Sydney 1998 Classy Clobber, Treadles Gallery, Kingston, Canberra 1999 Raw Art, Australian Naïve Art Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2004 CMAG Collection: Studio One Prints, Canberra 2007 Australian Outsiders, Halle St. Pierre, Paris, France 2010 Thirteen Australian Outsider Artists, Callan Park Gallery, Sydney 2011 On the Outer, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne 2011 Monoprints, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne 2012 Salvage, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne 2012 Beyond the Surface, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne 2013 A Matter of Perspective, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne 2014 Rainbows and Darkness, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne 2O14 Quibble, Gallery Stimuleye, Richmond, Melbourne Collections include Albury Regional Gallery, NSW; Tallangatta Shire Council, Victoria; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Canberra Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Canberra; Neuve Invention Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland; Iwalewa Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany; STOARC Archive, Sydney College of the Arts, NSW; Latvian Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia. Selected bibliography 1980 Days of Gold, Tony Convey [Thompsons] Albury 1983 Wonderland, Audray Banfield [Albury Regional Arts Centre] 1986 Unreal City, Stephanie Radok, eX de Medici (eds) [Bitumen River Gallery] Canberra 1987 Earth, Skin Heart, Sylvia Convey, Andrew Powell, and Tony Convey [Heart Press] 1987 Tall Tales, Sylvia Convey, Andrew Powell [Heart Press] 1988 UnreaI City, Stephanie Radok, eX de Medici [eds] [Canberra Contemporary Art Space] 1988 Print Project, Basil Hall [Studio One] Canberra 1988 Outsider Art in Australia, Ulli Beier, Philip Hammial [edsJ [Special Issue of Aspect] 1989 The Magic Eye and its Dream Rivers, Stephen Convey, Sylvia Convey, Anthony Mannix, Tony Convey [Iwalewa Haus], Bayreuth 1989 Outsider Kunst Aus Australien, Ulli Beier [Iwalewa Haus] Bayreuth 1989 Australian Art Brut: An Art Beyond Intimidation, Ken Shepherd [Gallerie Cannibal Pierce] 1990 Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine [ed] [Craftsman House] 1990 15 Australian Outsider Artists, Peter O'Neill [Orange Regional Gallery] 1991 7 Australian Outsider Artists, AngeIa Wong [Grafton RegionaI GaIIery] 1991 Sun, Smoke and Steel, Basil Hall [Studio One] Canberra 1991 Cross Currents, Judith Hoffberg [Umbrella Associates] Pasadena California 1992 Scarp21, R.K. Pretty [ed] [University of Wollongong] 1994 Australian Naïve Art, Sandra Warner [Craftsman House] 1994 The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch [eds] [Allen and Unwin] 1994 Australian Printmaking in the 90s, Sasha Grishin [Craftsman House] Sydney 1999 Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon Vol 21 [K.G. Verlag] Munich 2006 The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions [The Miegunyah Press] Melbourne |